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Chapter 650 Fill me up with gas (1420)

Qualifying continued, without Zhang Guan, the competition for pole position seemed to be in suspense again, and the drivers on the track also worked harder, and they all hoped to get pole position.

The China Force team did not give up hope. Although Zhang Guan retired, they still have Barrichello. Fighting for 16 years is enough to show that he has the strength of a first-class driver, and his experience is more suitable for other drivers that cannot be compared. He also has double-digit qualifying pole positions in his career and seven race wins, so it would come as no surprise if Barrichello took pole.

At this time, Barrichello also understood the current situation of the team, so he increased his horsepower, hoping to regain the pole position for the team.

The veteran powerhouse Ferrari returned to the garage early. Although their car has canceled the kinetic energy recovery system, they still have no hope of competing for pole position. For Ferrari, it is meaningless to continue to appear in the third quarter qualifying. Go back to the garage early to tune up the car.

Barrichello failed to create a miracle in the end, he lost to Red Bull Racing's Webber by 0.03 seconds. Red Bull's racing car is indeed very suitable for running such a comprehensive track, and Webber is temporarily in the first place.

The countdown to the third quarter of the competition has ended, and there are still cars on the track that are still making their final sprints. Now it can be said that it is the moment of "one lap decides the outcome".

"Am I number one now?" Webb asked the team over the radio.

"Yes. You are temporarily in the first place, but there are still a few cars behind you completing the final timing lap."

"Including Vettel?" Webber then asked.

"Yes." The team replied.

Webber didn't speak any more. He felt that if there was anyone on the track who could be faster than him, it would be only his teammate Vettel. Both of them are driving the same car, and in terms of driving skills, the future four-time champion Vettel is obviously better than Webber.

The next moment, Weber's earphones heard the team's reminder: "I tell you some bad news. Someone is faster than you. You have been overtaken. You are now in second place."

"Is it Vettel?" Webber asked immediately.

"No, it's Alonso!" the team replied.

"Alonso? Renault is so fast all of a sudden." There was surprise in Weber's voice.

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A few years ago, the Renault team was also a giant in Formula One. They once competed with Ferrari in the Schumacher era. At that time, Alonso drove the blue Renault car and sniped the car king Schumacher for two consecutive years, shattering Schumacher's dream of the eighth championship twice in a row, and Alonso won two consecutive championships, becoming the The only driver who can beat Schumacher head-on.

In recent years, Renault's cars have become less and less powerful, and they have withdrawn from the ranks of the top teams. But Alonso is the one who can beat Schumacher after all, even with a broken car, he can repeatedly achieve good results.

In the race in China, Alonso's car canceled the kinetic energy recovery system, and installed a double-layer diffuser with a transition plate. This double-layer diffuser was airlifted from Europe overnight after the International Racing Federation announced its compliance. of. In the previous practice, Alonso's car did not perform well, which also made many people think that Renault's double-layer diffuser was a failed product.

But now it seems that the result is just the opposite. Alonso surpassed Webber with a time of 1:36.381 and took the first place. Although Renault's car did not have the best speed, Alonso's technology made up for many of the shortcomings in speed.

However, behind Alonso, there is another person who also has the world's top technology, and that is the future four-time champion Vettel. And Vettel also has a faster car.

Just a few seconds after Alonso ran the fastest lap, Vettel also crossed the finish line, with a time of 1:36.184, which was 0.2 seconds faster than Alonso. Of course, Vettel refused to take it. Arrived at pole position at this station.

The top three starters are Red Bull Racing's Vettel, Renault Racing's Alonso and Red Bull Racing's Webber. It is worth mentioning that these three teams are all using Renault's engine. Obviously, Renault's engine is very suitable for this race. track. Barrichello was fourth, followed by Toyota's Trulli and Williams' Rosberg.

As for Zhang Guan, although the result given by the race is 10th, everyone knows that Zhang Guan will definitely start last on the grid tomorrow.

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The qualifying session has ended, and in the entire maintenance area, only the garage of the China Force team is still busy. They need to change the engine of Zhang Guan's car, and the workload of this work is the same as that of reassembling the car. After the engine is replaced, the car needs to be debugged. Of course, this kind of debugging can only be done in the garage, not on the road.

According to the rules of the competition, other cars have been sealed. If you want to debug or replace parts at this time, you have to bear the penalty of starting backward. Formula 1 has very clear penalties for this type of punishment, such as changing the transmission. Five starts, the replacement of the engine requires ten places to start, and the debugging of the car needs to start in the maintenance area, etc.

Zhang Guan was already the last one on the grid, so even if he got a new car, he would always be the last one on the grid, and the team simply replaced all the replaceable parts with a new set.

In the back office, Zhang Guan and Rose Brown are discussing tomorrow's strategy.

"The initial cause of the engine explosion has been found out, it was caused by overheating. We looked at the data in the practice game, and your engine had overheating during practice, but at that time The temperature dropped quickly, so I didn't pay much attention to it, but I didn't expect it to be a big mistake in the end." Ross Brown said.

"The mileage of this set of engines is actually not much. We finished the race in Australia, but only half of the race in Malaysia, so there shouldn't be any problems now." The technical director of the team Jendel continued: "According to our The original strategy was to change the engine after the race in China, and some other teams even planned to finish the Bahrain race with the first engine.”

Gendel took out a report, and continued: "I compared the data of Zhang Guan's engine temperature in the previous races, and at the same time made a horizontal comparison with the engine that Barry switched, and then compared the data of the previous four test engines. , From the data point of view, the data of the engine with the cylinder explosion is slightly abnormal, so our technical team preliminarily determined that the cause of the engine cylinder explosion is the defective quality of this engine, and this should be a separate case.”

Ross Brown nodded: "Send the relevant data to Mercedes-Benz. They may be more eager to know the reason than us."

After Ross Brown finished speaking, he looked at Zhang Guan, and then said, "Tomorrow, you will be the last one to start the car. We will have to use the heavy fuel strategy of one stop."

Zhang Guan thought for a while, but shook his head. He said, "Help me fill up the gas!"

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